Yard Update 4/24/11
A mini update so I hopefully don't go over my bandwidth limitations woth Photobucket.
Redlands White Sapote setting first fruit. A bit hard to see.....upper center of picture:
Nam Doc Mai....now full mature size, wating to be picked or to split with the next rainfall. Many of the mangoes have some scars on thier skin this year. Not sure why, but while it affects the exterior look, I am not expecting any compromise of the eating quality.
Seedling Rollinia fruit set. I have been feverishly hand pollinating all of my annonas....many cross pollinating withgefner Atemoya pollen. It would be interesting to do a large scale seedling development program. If anyone has the time and space....let me know.
Okrung....back to its glory production levels after severe hurrcane damage and several low yoeld years.
Hak Ip Lychee Fruit size update (for Lycheeluva):
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There had been some discussion about Duncan...here's mine.
Julie mango seems to have benifitted from Sulphur spraying. The fruits look cleaner and are definitely much more numerous this year. The tree has been in constant bloom for months.
Spirit of 76 coloring up
All for now.
Harry
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Comments (150)Chris, I would be interested in any tomato seeds that you may have extra of. My hubby and I were just talking about what to put in the veggie garden last night. My family likes canteloupe, watermelon, tomatoes, cumcumbers, and green beans. Would be interested in anything unusual, fun for the kids! But if you've got everything ready for Patty, or have it mailed, please don't worry about me!! I wasn't able to send to everyone either. I really wanted to though!! Patty, I'm going to have my daughter mail off my seeds today. I'll post when they've made it to the P.O. Have a good day everyone! Karen...See MoreYard Update 2/21/11
Comments (25)Thanks for all the kind words, as always. Troicalgrower89: You are considering: carrie, alphonso, golden nugget, glenn and valencia pride. I haven't had Alphonso yet, but the other choices are all excellent. My personal favorites are Maha Chanook, Edward, Dot, and Cushman. The best tree ripened specimen of the above would win my taste preference contest on most days. There are many other mangoes, that, on a given day, at the peak of perfection of ripeness, that could crack into the elite line up. There are almost too many to name of the mangoes that I am growing that would fall into this category. I built my collection based upon mango selections that were either rated excellent in the early Fairchild ratings back in their publications in the early 1990's or, if I came across a variety that someone thought was the best mango in the world (and I thought they had any idea about what they were talking about). I do own an obligatory Tommy Atkins just for completeness of the collection (I am almost embarrased to say). Of the mangoes you are considering, I would still reserve judgment on Alphonso. Valencia Prida is one of those that I grow that, in a given year or day, it can crack the top mangoes. The others would be just below the elite.....still excellent and worth growing, however....IMO. LOL, I just went back to an old post to a thread in this Forum to see what I had previously said in answer to this question. Here's what I said.... In the very top group would be Maha Chanook, Dot, Edward and Cushman...in no particular order. These would consistantly rate 9.0 or higher on a 10 point scale. After these, there is a group that, while not always in the top group, can, on a given day rival those in the top group. These would include Julie, Carrie, Graham,Mallika, Cogshall, Pickering, Okrung, Nam Doc Mai, Spirit of 76, Ice Cream, Valencia Pride and Southern Blush. These would consistantly rate 8.0-9.5 on a 10 point scale. I also have a seedling tree grown from a Mallika seed that has fruit that has flavor with the best of the best...but is knocked down because of abundant fiber. At least I agree with myself. Best of luck with your Haden graft! John: Good question. I have purchased the Ohia, Ohia Red and Ohia Pink. I have two trees that I know are the original Ohia...that was before I ever heard of the Pink or Red. I have one other tree that is flowering for the first time which is either the pink or red...not sure which. Also not sure how this one will differ from the original Ohias that have flowered and fruited consistantly for many years. Stay tuned for further developments on this front. Ethan: No...no damage on the Dang Rasimi again this year after a second fairly brutal winter. But then again, I really didn't have much daamge this year on any jakfruit other than some peripheral leaf damage on the Tabouey x J-30, Mai 2 and the Borneo Red. Sheehan: No...you misunderstood what I had said. Two of the Maha seedlings have flowered previously. Actually, one flowered two years in a row. However, they have never set any fruit. This year they are all three flowering and I see small fruit development. Maybe I am just looking closer but I am very hopeful that we'll have some to try. In the interim, I would say that there are some fairly different characteristics that indicate individuality. In the picture you will notice that some of the pannicles are deeper red than the others. Also, there was some difference in the timing of the blossom push. Not that this proves anything as I have 4 grafted Maha's planted out and they are off considerably by a number of weeks as compared to the others in bloom timing. Also, the tree on the NW side has much shorter pannicles than the others. BluePalm: Yes, Rosiegold does seem to be very anthracnose prone and the tree habit is scraggly as you can see on all three that I have. Remember, the tree pictured was originally grafted by me and I was calling it the Martinez mango based on what I was told by the suppplier of the scions. I have come to realize that what I have is Rosiegold...so now I have three of them planted out and they all look the same...scraggly. On your question about that Brewster lychee. It was a wedding gift to my wife and I and was in a 15 or so gallon pot when it was planted out in June of 1991. Andrew: My Jean Ellen was purchased not this past Fairchild Festival but the one the previous year. So it has been planted out since around July of 2009....that is one year and seven months. Remember...that is the tree I used as an experiment in my "To prune or not to prune" thread. See link below. Here is a link that might be useful: To prune or not to prune...See MoreYard Update 3/24/10
Comments (18)Thanks to all for the nice comments. Gerry: So sorry, in a senior moment I short changed you on credit for my trees' blossoming. It's nice to know that your blooming prayers are so well received by the almighty! Andrew: The Meyer Lemon is very edible by itself...if you have just eaten a Miracle Fruit Berry. Its more sour than a sour orange but not as sour as store bought, Eureka type lemon. Felipe: Edaw is the leading commercial cultivar in Thailand from what I was told. It isn't the largest, or even the best tasting fruit, but it is very prolific, bears regularly and is a good longan. I prefer See Chompoo or Biew Keow which are both slightly better than Kohala in my humble opinion. Edaw would be just a hair less than Kohala in my book. Tommy Wong is a seedling grown by Tommy Wong....coincidentally. I didn;t know him, but Bill Flynn (an old timer from Southern Dade County (now probably deceased) sold it to me about 15 years ago. It bears regularly and is on the same level, for me, as Edaw. Sheehan: I have been getting $1 per fruit for Hasya sapodillas (the smaller ones). When I get the really large ones, I have gotten up to $4 per pound....See MoreYard Update 12/10/11
Comments (25)Hello All, Well it's obvious from the looks of the Jujube and the Soursop that you have No Idea what you doing or how to grow fruit trees! Sorry, I couldn't resist. I definitely agree with Gary, thanks so much for all that you have done for so many of us, inspiration alone has kept many of us going I'm sure. As always I could spend forever just looking at the pictures you post Harry, and as always, everything looks awesome! Please keep them coming. Quick question, I have a Zill's Black Surinam Cherry that you sent me a while back and it is doing really. What is the flavor like?...See Morenullzero
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13 years agoThanks to all for the kind remarks. I forgot one update photo. Here is the first fruit on my Petch Pakchong sugarapple, that I think is really an atemoya. Its a tiny tree and very recent planting, but I have had the fruit from a friend's tree and I thought it compared favorably with Gefner.....so I planted out two.
@Stephen: I ran out and hand pollinated the first Physical Graffiti bloom. Noticed a bunch of new buds popping out. Whiole these do set fruit without hand polination, there is no doubt that hand pollination increases yield by many times.
@Ethan: The Rollinia seedling was given to me after it was already a couple feet tall....so I am not sure how big the fruit was. I was thinking that the seedling came from my friend Noel, pictured below
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but in checking my records, another of my friends picked it up for me....so I am going to have to wait until the size of the fruit will be revealed. Stay tuned.
@Amr: I have only done business with Pine......so you know where my loyalties and reccomendations would lie.
@JF: I have had Neelum and Keitt into October....however, once the main crop of mangoes is over, the local critters descend on the latter maturing culitvars and it is a race in time to see who is going to get the last of the mango crop....them or me. Unfortuantely, they get many more than me. So, the realistic final dates is usually no later than early September and sometimes, late August depending on the year.
@Gary: According to the literature and my own experience, mangoes take between 100 and 160 from flower to fruit depending on the cultivar and ambient weather conditions. The warmer the temps, the faster the mangoes mature.
@Jacob: Many of my jakfruit trees have fruit on them now. The greatest fruit set is on Black Gold, Dang Rasimi, Black Gold x Tabouey, and a seedling I call Orange Crisp. The fruits range in size from mere ounces to probably 10 pounds. The fruits will be ripening between June or so and September.
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